Jeremy Geelan

'HTML has long been at war with itself,' writes Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford, one of the most popular speakers at AJAXWorld ever since it began life early in 2006. 'Is it a document format or is it an application delivery format? You can see th ... (more)

"HTML has long been at war with itself," writes Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford, one of the most popular speakers at AJAXWorld ever since it began life early in 2006. "Is it a document format or is it an application delivery format? You can see that confusion in the cacophonou... (more)

In a move to bolster its attempt to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, Google yesterday joined other leading social networking players in introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write cross-network programs. According t... (more)

Anything you can do on your Facebook web page you will shortly be able to do instead on your BlackBerry, thanks to a new Facebook app being released by RIM, the makers of BlackBerries. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis made the announcement yesterday at the CTIA conference in San Francis... (more)

When Microsoft parted with $240M for a 1.6% stake in a company with $140M in revenues and $30M in profits, was it over-paying? Conspiracy theorists were quick to say that the move was deliberate, to inflate the overall value of Facebook to $15BN and ... (more)

The i-Technology Blog When Microsoft parted with $240M for a 1.6% stake in a company with $140M in revenues and $30M in profits, was it over-paying? Conspiracy theorists were quick to say that the move was deliberate, to inflate the overall value of Facebook to $15BN and thereby ... (more)

The BBC carried a report yesterday that raises the alarming possibility of extending cellphone use on board airplanes from just either end of a journey to throughout the duration of the flight. Now before I go any further let me just say that I do not go as far as the British ess... (more)

While it won't be changing its policy forbidding users from unlocking the iPhone to use it with carriers other than AT&T, Apple has relented: in February it will make an iPhone SDK available. "We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third-par... (more)

The BBC carried a report yesterday that raises the alarming possibility of extending cellphone use on board airplanes from just either end of a journey to throughout the duration of the flight. ... (more)

The BBC carried a report yesterday that raises the alarming possibility of extending cellphone use on board airplanes from just either end of a journey to throughout the duration of the flight. Now before I go any further let me just say that I do not go as far as the British ess... (more)

BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects. Another ramification of the deal is the impact it may or may not have on SAP's relationship ... (more)

Pablo Picasso was on to something when he declared that computers are useless "because they can only give you answers." Conferences, on the other hand, can also give you questions. Take AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, for example, the September event at which some of you ... (more)

Although Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997, Google wasn't officially launched till one year later, making Google 9 years old this year. Google's birthday has always been celebrated on September 27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage, and to... (more)

In conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft, Sybase has announced that Sybase IQ powers the world’s largest data warehouse implemented in history, as noted in the independently audited report, “Sun Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for Structured and Unstruct... (more)

"SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, Vice President of IBM SOA and WebSphere, as MSC.Software this week announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully com... (more)

The inaugural iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (November 12-13, 2007) is rapidly building out its program and the Conference Advisory Board is currently sorting through the hundreds of proposals for technical and strategic sessions that have been coming in. Final deadlin... (more)

iPhone Developer Track at AJAXWorld Offers Unique Lineup   "It's likely that the speed of the iPhone's rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market," said a report by research group iSuppli yesterday, as it was revealed t... (more)

JackBe CTO John Crupi, IBM CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies David Boloker, Kapow Technologies Founder & CTO Stefan Andreasen, ITerating Executive Nicolas Vandenberghe, Roundarch RIA Practice Leader Charles Fiesel, SnapLogic co-Founder Michael Pittaro, ICEsoft Senior Archite... (more)

Never have so many acronyms been as well served at one time as have BPM, BPEL, and SOA by the arrival in the CEO office at Active Endpoints, inc. of Mark Taber, who is adamant that over time Active Endpoints will be able, through simplifying their architecture and helping them wi... (more)

In true Web 2.0 style, Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week gave an inadvertent masterclass in how those who live by the blog also die by the blog, when he publicly blogged an advance heads-up that Sun is about to "retire" its historic NASDAQ ticker symbol "SUNW" and replace it ... (more)